Ward Drinking and English Habit in Historic View
The article argues hard drinking is an English national habit from medieval times onward. It cites Johe Rowe in 1506, Chaucer’s low characters, Rumsey nuns, Walter Map's songs, and Saxon army revelry to claim drinking defined English culture and even shaped early conceptions of Heaven.
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Ward
St. James
Shakespeare
Iago
Johe Rowe
Abless
Rumsey
Bishop Fox
Chaucer
Benny
Clementina Guildford
Johce Rowe
Merin
Wolman
Stephen
Walter Map
Oxford
Lastings
Great Britain
Mrs Swisshelm's First Meeting and Marriage Tale
Mrs Swisshelm recounts meeting her future husband a tall grave Russian countlike figure at a country frolic near Wilkinsburg in 1836 and their marriage on November 13 1836. She notes a unhappy married life yet deep love and later pursues art in 1837 before returning to duties at home.
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Chicago Times
New York
Wilkinsburg
Swisshelm
France and England Compared by Eli Perkins London Letter
The London letter contrasts France and England: France uses three quarters of its soil for grain and vegetables and remains self sustaining with strong land values. England relies on imports, suffers high rents and debt, and faces economic decline. America’s growth toward self sufficiency is expected as manufactures expand.
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Eli Perkins
London
Calais
Paris
England
France
America
China
Morgan the celebrated calculator of lives and gas from garbage
The piece notes Morgans habit as a life calculator and cites a remark about losing friends. It mentions an experiment in New York where seventeen ounces of garbage produced twenty two cubic feet of gas of fair quality using garbage collections for illuminating gas.
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Morgan
New York
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